Old Stag, 20 Bishop Street
| These premises have been known by different names during their history: | FROM | TO | NAME |
| 1822 | 1858 | Stag | |
| 1835 | ? | Beerhouse | |
| 1858 | 2021 | Old Stag | |
| 2024 | Stag and Hen | ||
In 1835 see the BEERHOUSE, Bishop Street.
Until 1858 it was referred to as just the STAG until William Hill took over the license and it became the OLD STAG.
In 1974 the pub underwent a 10 week transformation into a Victoriana-replica, and it re-opened under landlord Larry Wynne, with retiring regional director of Mitchells and Butlers, John Bladon, pulling the first pint.
In 1982 it was 'instantly recognisable as a Mitchells and Butlers lounge bar created out of what was once a three-roomed pub.... there's an impressive dark wood surround and some genuine mirrors advertising Bass No.1 Barley Wine and Atkinsons'.
In 2010 the Old Stag was sold by Punch Taverns to the next door funeral directors, A. Pargetter & Son, and it reopened as a free house under new licensees, Clive Hunt and Paul Barrow. This struggled, though, especially with the closure of the nearby Royal Mail sorting office that same year.
Another opening was attempted in 2018 by Tony King, but was also short-lived.On Friday 8th November 2024 Paul Curtis reopened this pub as the STAG AND HEN. The stag is a male red deer in its prime, i.e. in its fifth year. Most of the signs refer to hunts, stag hunting having been a favourite royal sport in the past. Occasionally it is a heraldic reference. | |||
LICENSEES:1858 - 1863 William Hill 1868 - 1874 James Hopkins 1879 William J. Walker 1881 Joseph or Joshua Jackson 1886 William Hopkins 1890 - 1893 M. A. Hopkins 1894 - 1899 H. Barnett 1903 - 1905 James Stringer 1909 W. Barnett 1909 - 1932 Johnathan Hewitt 1933 - 1934 Arthur Maiden 1934 - 1935 Albert John Denny 1935 Clement Euclid Wager 1935 - 1936 William Faulkner Ryder 1936 Edwin Sale 1937 Trevor Augustus Waters 1937 - 1938 Norris Thomas Brown 1938 - 1940 Frank James 1960 Neville Abel 1974 - 1985 Lawrence (Larry) and Bridie Wynne (Larry died 24th June 1985, aged 60) 1985 - 1992 Bridie Wynne (retired in May 1992) 1992 - 1993 Jim Holton (former Sky Blues and Scottish international footballer, died 4th Oct 1993, aged only 42) 1993 - 1995 Jan Holton (Jim's widow) 1995 - 1996 Jim O'Keeffe 2010 - 2018 Clive Hunt and Paul Barrow 2018 Tony King | |||
OWNERS:to 2010 Punch Taverns 2010 - A Pargetter & Sons | |||
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